How about swapping your office broadband connection for some carrier pigeons?

Sounds like a joke but this firm is quite serious about using pigeons to carry several Gigs of data between their offices which are 50 miles apart.

'To send four gigabytes of encrypted information takes around six hours on a good day. If we get bad weather and the service goes down then it can up to two days to get through... Experts believe the specially-trained 11-month-old pigeon will complete the flight in just 45 minutes - and at a fraction of the cost.'